Every participating university is invited to send several students and one teacher. Individual students are welcome. The competition is planned for students completing their first, second, third or fourth year of university education and will consist of 2 Sessions of 5 hours each. Problems will be from the fields of Algebra, Analysis (Real and Complex) and Combinatorics. The working language will be English.

organized by University College London Warsaw University

Opening Ceremony and Reception sponsored by

President Professor John E. Jayne Department of Mathematics University College London Gower Street London WC1E 6BT, UK Tel: +44-20-7679 7322 Fax: +44-20-7419 2812 e-mail: [email protected] http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucahjej/

Competition Coordinator: Chrisina Draganova [email protected]

Local Organizing Committee Michal Krych Zbigniew Marciniak Pawel Strzelecki

Over the previous eight competitions we have had students from the following seventy three universities from twenty seven countries: Los Andes University (Colombia), University of Athens, Babes-Bolyai University (Romania), Belarusian State University, University of Belgrade, Ben Gurion University (Israel), Blagoevgrad University (Bulgaria), Bessenyei College Nyíregyháza (Hungary), University of Birmingham, Bonn University, University of Bordeaux, University of Bucharest, Cambridge University, Charles University Prague, Technical University of Cluj- Napoca (Romania), Colombia National University, Comenius University (Slovakia), Complutense University of , Nicholas Copernicus University (Poland), University of Debrecen (Hungary), École Normale Superieure, University of Iowa, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jagiellonian University (Poland), Kharkov State University (Ukraine), Lorand Eötvös University (Hungary), Free University Berlin, TU-Berlin Fachbereich Mathematik, Helsinki University of Technology, University of Helsinki, Kiev Polytechnic Institute, Kyiv Taras Shevchenko University, University of "Kyiv-Mohyla Academy", University of Kishineu (Moldova), University of Ljubliana (Slovenia), University College London, Brno (Czech Republic), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Adam Mickiewicz University (Poland), Mongolian Technical University, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Moscow State University, (), University of Nis (Serbia), North University of Baia (Romania), Odessa National Mechnikov University (Ukraine), University of Oradea (Romania), Oxford University, University of VI, University of Plovdiv (Bulgaria), Poznan University (Poland), University of Rousse (Bulgaria), University of Shoumen (Bulgaria), Shahid Beheshti University (Iran), Sharif University of Technology (Iran), Shiraz University (Iran), University of Skopje (Macedonia), University of Sofia (Bulgaria), University of Szeged (Hungary), University of Tehran, (Spain), University of Veliko Turnovo (Bulgaria), University of Tartu (Estonia), Technical University Budapest, Technical University Sofia (Bulgaria), Technion Institute (Israel), Tel-Aviv University, Vilnius University (Lithuania), Warsaw University, Warwick University, University of Timisoara (Romania), University of Zagreb (Croatia), University of (Spain).

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